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I don 't know where I am. I 'm lost in the forest behind my house.It was a cold fall night on friday the 13th at 6:00 at night. This forest is known all across Oregon , it is know for children going missing in their the last place anybody sees or heard the kids that have gone in there they were all going after a ball or balloon. Most of the kids that went after the balloon have been older than 8 to 10 years olds and the kids who go after the ball are 6 or younger. Now you 're probably wondering what I am doing in there just trying to go missing well no. My best friend, Timber,her brother went missing. Her whole family is sad and scared that they will never find him again especially if the last pace they saw him was walking in here. So we told Timbers parents that she could spend a few nights over here while they go and search for him where he could have gone missing. When Timber came you knew she didn 't want to be here. You could tell she wanted to be out there looking for him. …show more content…

We had to go into the forest ourselves. When Timber first brought up this idea of going into the forest the only thing I could think of is that this was payback for the time she told me not to go inside the garage and I did anyway. But, I could tell that Timber was being serious. I know why she would want to go in there to try and find her brother and it 's not just because it is her brother it 's also because she was the one who was suppose to be watching him the day he went in the forest. So we decided to go into the forest. So the plan was to wait until my parents want to sleep and then we would go. Even though it 's more scary to go out at night in what I call the killing forest it 's the only time we could not get

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